Signaling apparatus for use with motor-driven vehicles.



W. M. RoLPH. SIGNALING APPARATUS FOR USB WITH MOTOR DBIV'EN VEHICLES.

, APPLICATION FILED MAY 12, 1913.l 1,121,870.A A Patented Dec. 22, 1914u SIGNALING- ABBRATUS' Pon Usa WITH 'MoToR'DRIvBN VEHICLES.

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. v APPLICATION FILED MAY l2. 1913. 1,121,870.

WILL MAIB. BOLPH, 0F MNDON, ENGLAND.

SIGNALING APPART'US FOR USE WITH M0T0IR-DBIIVZEJRr VEHICLES.

Specification ai. Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 22; lmet.

Application led May 12. 1913. Seriallo. 767,210.

To all whom it m ay concern Be it known that l, WILLIAM MMR Rouen,V

a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Norwich Union Building, 39 St. Jamess street,'Lon dor, England, have 1nvented new and useful Improiements in and Relating to Signaling Apparatus for Use with Motor-Driven Vehiclesyof which the following is a specification.y

A.This'ir'ivention relates to improvements in. andrelating to signaling apparatus for use with motor driven vehicles.

According to this invention the signalingl apparatus, which may be a combined indicator and tail lamp, is automatically operated by the clutch or brake pedal or side brake lever. To eiect thisthe pedals and levers above mentioned are connected by 4wires or rods to a pivoted 'arm which may be carried by a bracket or in acase fitted beneath the vehicle. he arm is connected to the indicator by means of a Bowden or other l wire. The connections of the'pedals and the side brake 'lever with the pivoted arm are at different distances from the pivot, so that the'arm is turned a greater or less def gree according to the .pedal or lever op-l erated, thusgi'ving the proper amount ot turning movement required to show either Slow or Stop on4 the apparatus. Means are provided for adjusting the length v of the connecting wires.

The drawings show apparatus made in accordance with this invention.

Figures 1, 2, and 3 are plans showing the apparatus in three different positions. Fig.

l it is a side elevation of Fig. 1 and Fig. 5 is a longitudinal. section of the indicator.

a is the clutch pedal and b' the brake pedal connected by wires c and d to the rod e to which is also connected a Bowden Wire f attached to the revolving cyl y of the indicator as 1s shown in Fig. The hand brake lever la is connected by a. wire i to the 'arm j pivoted at k, to the other end of which is also pivotally connected the rod e.

In Fig. 1 the vparts are shown with the clutch in gear and neither of the brakes in action no signal being made by the indicator.

In Fig. Q' the clutch pedal a is depressed the clutch being put outof gear. .The Boi'.vden wire is pulled a short' distance as showin the indicator showing the Word Slow the same result being also attained by depressing the'brale pedal b. .In Fig. 3 the hand brake lever h: has been operated and the Bowden wire f has been pulled a greater distance, the indica-tor showing the word Stop. By these means neither the brake mechanism nor the clutch can be operated without an appropriate signal being, given at the back of the car.

What I claim is v In adevice of the character described, a

hand brake-operating mechanism, a clutchoperating mechanism and a brake-operating mechanism in combination with a pivoted arm, an indicator, a connection :between the indicator and the pivoted arm, a connection between the ivoted arm'and the clutch-operating mechanism, a connection between the p'ii'foted arm andthe brake operating' mechanism-for moving said pivoted arm a certain extent. to give a certain signal and a connection-between the pivoted arm and the hand brake-operating mechanism for moving the piroted armto a greater extent to gire a dillerent signal. y f

WILLAM MAIR ROLPH.

Vitnesses f 0. J. WORTH,

W. E. ROGERS. 

